Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

While that sounds highly intellectual moth, I suspect you may be referring to the folklore behind the successful Activision game "Heavy Gear".

In particular this line, "In A.D. 4318, Professor Markus Tannhauser wrote his masterpiece, "Principia Universalis." His Unified Theory explained time-space discontinuities and their potential as gateways to the stars."

As explained in the glossary here: http://www.dp9.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=94

Unless of course you are part of Markus Tannhauser's team utilising one of those gates to come back in time and let us know about it....?

Rutger Hauer signed a photo of himself for a friend of mine at a conference- with that Tanhauser gate quote, which he got wrong.

When Robin called him on it he said "it was an ad-lib, never in the script, I just made it up- and now I can never remember what I said"